Re: using strxfrm for having multi locale/please vote for

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)surnet(dot)cl>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Mahmoud Taghizadeh <m_taghi(at)yahoo(dot)com>, peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net, db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org, mail(at)joeconway(dot)com, sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: using strxfrm for having multi locale/please vote for
Date: 2005-06-07 15:11:53
Message-ID: 8504.1118157113@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> There are some things I think ICU can fix for us like indexing non-C
>>> localed columns.
>>
>> Huh, we already do that, don't we?

> Sorry, I meant LIKE index usage for non-C columns. We can do that now
> with a special LIKE indexing method, but this would allow normal indexes
> to work.

Sounds like pie in the sky to me. Exactly how do you think that ICU
will magically mask the fundamental semantic inconsistency?

regards, tom lane

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